2022 Feb 15
Benin Bronzes in Context
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online
In Benin Bronzes in Context, Sarah Clunis will look at objects currently in the care of Harvard and discuss the way that these objects represent an iconographic and contextual story of trade, contact, and crossroads between cultures. Diana Loren will moderate a discussion after the presentation.
The bronze, ivory, and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes” were taken from Benin City as part of the British Punitive Expedition of 1897 and dispersed to private collections and museums around the world. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology...
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2022 Feb 15
Why the Mississippi Delta Matters
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
W. Ralph Eubanks is a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi, where he is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Join Eubanks as he discusses his upcoming book, which weaves together personal history, archival research, reporting, blues and popular culture, and interviews with current Delta residents to tell the region’s history and explore why many residents of this iconic region of Mississippi persist in trying to transform a place that has been deemed broken and beyond repair.
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2022 Feb 15
Shrinking Civic Space in Africa: Lessons from Uganda
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—Online
In this talk, Nicholas Opiyo—Carr Center Fellow, Scholar at Risk, and Human Rights Lawyer in Uganda—will analyze and explore the state arguments that have been made for limitations on the civic space in Africa. Throughout the discussion, he will trace relevant trends and examine the role of the international community in Africa’s political spheres. Noting that there are possible ways to push back against the shrinking of civic space, Opiyo will suggest new ways for civil society to organize effectively.
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2022 Feb 15
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront—its most treasured asset? The book’s authors study the lakefront’s evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Their findings have significance for understanding not only Chicago’s history but also the law’s part in determining the future of significant urban resources such as waterfronts.
Join us for a discussion on Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago with authors Joseph Kearney and Thomas Merrill and panelists Henry Smith, Richard...
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2022 Feb 15
Safe, Sacred, Free: Queer Movements and Religious Spaces
12:00pm
Location: 
Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard—Online
Heather R. White, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Gender and Queer Studies and 2021-22 Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate, will deliver the lecture, "Safe, Sacred, Free: Queer Movements and Religious Spaces."
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2022 Feb 15
Incarceration and its Impact on Health
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
The Equity and Social Justice (ESJ) is a series of lectures and dialogues which targets the Harvard Longwood community as well as communities in the greater Boston area. The series provides context to the historical, current, and future state of equity and social justice in health and health care, and engages and equips participants with tools to take action. ESJ events focus on four areas: (1) History and Context, (2) Culture and Environment, (3) Health Disparities, and (4) Leadership and Skills Development.
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2022 Feb 15
Afghanistan After the Collapse: Where Are We Now, and What Comes Next?
11:00am to 12:15pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
On the six-month anniversary of the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan, this Negotiation Task Force virtual event, moderated by NTF Fellow Fara Abbas, explores Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Together with our expert panel of speakers, we will address the political, economic, and security developments in Afghanistan and the way forward. The consequences of a Taliban failure to govern are far reaching.
This event will address the following questions: What can be expected from the...
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2022 Feb 11
Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a 'Confiscated' Past
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard—Online
This lecture is part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series.
 
Shadreck Chirikure, Professor of Archaeology, University of Cape Town and British Academy Global Professor, School of Archaeology, Oxford University in conversation with Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT.
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2022 Feb 11
Should Alexa Diagnose Alzheimer’s?: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Technology is now part of our lives in ways that were not possible only 10-20 years ago. Smart devices, like watches, phones, and speakers, can gather vast amounts of information about their users, often without the user’s knowledge or consent. As technology continues to improve, many of these devices may also be leveraged to serve diagnostic functions. Technologies such as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant can ambiently and continually monitor a variety of information about an individual’s location, voice, and movement. As this technology merges with wearables, such as the Apple...
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2022 Feb 10
Virtual Student Guide Tour
Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Feb 24 2022 .
8:00pm to 8:30pm
8:00pm to 8:30pm
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Harvard undergraduates lead these tours focused on several objects in our collections. This interactive tour will take place online via Zoom. The link to join will be updated soon. The tours are free and open to all; no pre-registration required.
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2022 Feb 10
Peril to Democracy: Racism and Nationalism in America
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
The after effects of the January 6 insurrection continue to reverberate across America. Since that fateful and disturbing day, pushbacks against the teaching of race in America, abortion rollbacks, and Covid denialism have swept across the country. What has been the role of evangelical Christianity in fueling these issues?
Professor Anthea Butler's lecture will explore the historical antecedents of Evangelical beliefs and political action leading up to today’s troubling times, and the prospects for the future of religion, peace and political action in America.
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2022 Feb 10
Book Talk with Anita Hill
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
This installment in the Radcliffe Institute’s winter series of book talks will feature Anita Hill, author of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking, 2021). Professor Hill is University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
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2022 Feb 10
From Strength to Strength: Book Launch Event with Arthur Brooks
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Business School & Harvard Kennedy School—Online
Please join Professor Arthur Brooks for a conversation on his new book, From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, featuring introductory remarks from Seth Klarman, (MBA '82), CEO of The Baupost Group of Boston. "Change in life is inevitable, but suffering from it is not," says Brooks. "We can succeed in life and work in new and spectacular ways, but we first have to understand our changing strengths." From Strength to Strength is a handbook to happiness in the second half of life.
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2022 Feb 09
Joint Panel with Krzysztof Wodiczko: A Dialogue on Art, Technology, and Spectacle
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Join us for two consecutive panels and a conversation with internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko.
In this joint panel, we will first explore how creative practices and institutions navigate audience participation and how they enter into spaces of co-production. Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will discuss how his practice, use of technology, and processes of community participation are in dialogue with Krzysztof Wodiczko’s own practice. In her presentation, Jill Medvedow, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, will discuss the role of...
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2022 Feb 09
Educated in a White Space: African American Graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1925
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School—Online
During the first seventy-five years, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania graduated eighteen African American women – more than any other predominantly white medical school. This talk will examine the lives and careers of these “sisters of a darker race” who encountered racial and sexual discrimination as they demonstrated that medicine was Black women’s work.
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2022 Feb 09
Education Now: Navigating Tensions Over Teaching Race and Racism
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
How can schools, educators, and families navigate the continued politicization and tensions around teaching and talking about race, racism, diversity, and equity? As laws banning critical race theory are passed, and the rhetoric grows intense, we'll discuss what educators and families can do to make sure students are supported, learning, and prepared with the knowledge they need to understand their own histories and the diverse and global society they’ll enter.
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2022 Feb 09
One From Another
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
A presentation from 2021–2022 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow Roger Reeves.
Roger Reeves is a poet and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He plans to create a poem that "sings out of the largesse of black life, a song that sings of a future that is both ecstatic and defiant."
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2022 Feb 08
John T. Dunlop Lecture: The Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, "Building the World We Want to See: What Do We Want Our Legacy to Be?"
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Secretary Marcia L. Fudge believes the country’s housing issues do not fit into a one-size-fits-all approach. We need policies and programs that can adapt to meet a community’s unique housing challenges. She is committed to making the dream of homeownership - and the security and wealth creation that comes with it - a reality for more Americans.
After the lecture, Secretary Fudge will be in conversation with Jerold Kayden, the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and...
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2022 Feb 08
The Psychochronology of Everyday Life: Time in Graphic Memoir
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard—Online
Alison Bechdel will discuss some of the strategies she has used to navigate time in her various graphic memoirs. From the simultaneity of events in the unconscious, to the time-stamped documents of evidence, to the search for patterns in random, unspooling life, to the ultimate problem of mortality, Bechdel shows her work in search of visual solutions to lost time.
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2022 Feb 08
Black Medical Illustrations and Their Importance in Medicine
1:00pm to 2:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Countway Library of Medicine—Online
Join Harvard Countway Library to hear from Forbes-featured medical illustrator Chidiebere Ibe as he discusses his work, how he taught himself to draw Black medical illustrations, and why diversity and representation in medical texts is so important.
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